Wednesday, October 16 SUMMER OLYMPICS (ABC, 1-2 p.m.; 7-7:30 p.m.; 8:30-9 p.m.).* Continuation of 1968 Summer Olympic Games live from Mexico City. ABC will cover major events daily through Oct. 27.
THE JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ella Fitzgerald and George Raft.
Thursday, October 17 THE FABULOUS SHORTS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A combined live action-animation salute to Academy Award-winning cartoons, including discussion of the art of animation by Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny. Actor Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo) is host.
SOUL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The producers of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, have more irreverence and irrelevance in store in this all-black musical variety special; stars include Lou Rawls, George Kirby and Nipsey Russell.
Saturday, October 19
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m.-midnight). The Hallelujah Trail (1965). Western comedy with Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau, Pamela Tiffin and Donald Pleasence.
Sunday, October 20
PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A wrap-up of Comic Paulsen's apolitical presidential campaign; films show how he crashed the Democratic and Republican conventions, as well as his 89¢-a-plate testimonial dinner held in a Beverly Hills cafeteria and a politically inspired flight in a biplane.
Monday, October 21
BABAR THE ELEPHANT (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.) Peter Ustinov narrates an animated adaptation of the children's stories by the late French writer and artist Jean de Brunhoff. The program is based on the firs three Babar books: The Story of Babar The Travels of Babar and Babar the King.
HEMINGWAY'S SPAIN: A LOVE AFFAIR (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. narrates a documentary on the scenes and people celebrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway. Film crews return to the ruins of the village of Valsain, the Sierra de Guadarrama, and the cities of Madrid, Malaga, San Sebastian and Cuenca. The program includes readings by Rod Steiger and Estelle Parsons and performance by Antonio Ordoñez, the bullfighter immortalized in "The Dangerous Summer."
Check local listings for dates and times of these NET programs:
NET PLAYHOUSE. "The Mayfly and the Frog." Sir John Gielgud stars in a fanciful story about a tender encounter be tween a middle-aged multimillionaire and a scruffy teen-age girl.
THE POPULATION PROBLEM. "Born in Ja pan." A documentary showing how Japan, one of the most densely populated na tions in the world, has become the only Asian nation to reduce its birth rate since World War II.
THEATER
THEATER
On Broadway
THE GREAT WHITE HOPE is a sprawling semi-documentary that traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play itself is a drama of contrition stirred by the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding, arrogant boxer, commands the stage like an avenging black giant.